Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-10
NEWS ODDITIES.

New York has saloon for every "a
registered voters in the city.
The musterroll of the Grand Army of
the Republic shows 100000 names.
The fishing business constitutes about
one-tenth of our trade with Canada.
Louisiana claims the largest farm in
the world. 1t comprises 100000 acres
OF land and swamp.
1t has recently been discovered that
tae bark of the cotton plant root contains
what promises to be an available coloring
matter.
AND now 1T is said that Russia has a
ne" destructive more powerful than any
VI those possessed by other European
nations.
MARSHALL, LEFFERTs s. Co. iron mar
chants OF New York, made an assionment
1uesoay, with preferences amounting to
FRITZ HAss, seventy wears of age was
frozen to death while retaining home
from Shell Lake, last Thursday. His wife
also nearly persisted.
AN explosion occurred Tuesday in the
Relaubrum collery at st. Etienne. France
and several hundred men are supnosed
to have been killed.
The Minneapolis lumber firm of Beede
& Barry, assigned Monday, with heavy
liabilities, but they claim their assets are
adequate to meet all liabilities.
The prohibitionists of Chicago have
nominated James l.. Whitlock TOR mavor.
Thomas Moulding for treasurer, w. S.
McComas for clerk and Henry A. Davis,
attorney.
CHINESE junk from Haiman to Siam
with six hundred passengers aboard was
wrecked recently off the Soctray coast.
and only six of those aboard are known
to have escaped death.
A DISPATCH from Sofia says the troops
at Silistra havesrevolted aud pronounced
against the regency. Troops are march
ing to Silistra, from Rust Chuk, yerna
and Schumla, to quell the mutiny at
Grekoff and Kaltcheff.
The large factory of the Windsor fold
ing bed company, in Chicago was dam
aged by fire Tuesday to the extent of
$4,000. One fireman had leg and an
other an arm broken by the breaking of
an extension ladder.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States and Canad during last
week was lessened 2,26O,O62 bushels of
wheat, 1885, 26 bushels of corn, 136,415
bushels of oats, 1884 bushels of rye, and
So, 1852 bushels of barley.
Winter Wheat
The crop summary of the Chicago Far
mer's Review for this week is as follows:
"The winter wheat fields except in
Michigan and Wisconsin, have been bare
for two weeks and subjected to varying
mild and cold weather, but, except in
Kansas, the outlook for the crop contin-
ues to be reported as promising. The
best reports come from Ohio, Indiana.
Michigan, Wisconsin and Missouri, while
the outlook IN Illinois is fair, and in Kan
sas is poor. Out of twenty-six Illinois
counties reporting this week, sixteen re.
port the crop as looking well, seven as
looking fair, and three predict a short
crop. In fourteen Indiana counties
two report fine outlook, five report the
prospect as good, five az fair, and two a
poor outlook. Of fourteen Ohio counties
ten report good to fine-Iooking fields, and
in four cuonties the prospect is regarded
as fair. Nine Wisconsin and eleven
Michigan counties report the outlook as
uniformly favorable. Twelve Missouri
counties report the crop as promising a
full averaged. In thirteen Kansas counties
five report fair to good prospects, while
eight report very poor outlook, and in
some instances report the fields as bare
and dead.
There is a very light corn movement in
Illinois, and in all the states west and
southwest of Illinois. Fully one-half of
the counties of Iowa are importing corn
at 35 and 40 cents per bushel ard this
is also true of scattering counties in
Wisconsin and Illinois. In
Decatur County, Iowa, 500 cars of corn,
Or an aggregate of 100000 bushels has
been imported, and n Madison county of
the same state hay has been advanced
from So to Sc and SIS per ton. The move
ment of corn in Nebraska is fair, but is
determined by the low prices, many hold
ding their corn for an advance. The
average price Of corn 16 to % cents. In
Fillmore County the shipping price is II
cents; In Greeley, Is to- 20; in Kearney,
l6; in Platte. Is; in York, Is and in
81.